‘Disclosure Day’ tops UK-Ireland box office with best Steven Spielberg start since 2018, ‘Obsession’ scores highest placement to date

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Universal’s Disclosure Day has topped the UK-Ireland box office with the best opening for a Steven Spielberg film since 2018; as horror phenomenon Obsession climbed back up the chart with its highest placement to date.

Disclosure Day opened with £3.9m from 727 locations, at a £5,353 average. This marks the biggest opening for a Spielberg film since 2018’s Ready Player One, which began with a £4m weekend at a £5,809 average. Disclosure Day has topped the full openings of 2022’s The Fabelmans  (£1.1m) and 2021’s West Side Story  (£1.3m), as well as 2018’s The Post  (£2.2m).

The sci-fi, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor – both previous Screen UK-Ireland Stars of Tomorrow – is up to £5.5m having opened last Wednesday, June 10.

Curry Barker’s Obsession posted another outstanding hold for Universal, with a 22% drop on its fifth session far better than the market average; and better than its 25% drop this weekend in North America. Its £1.5m weekend moved it up from fourth last time out to its highest chart ranking yet of second place, overtaking Scary Movie, Backrooms and Masters Of The Universe.

It recorded more on its fifth session than on either its first or second weekends (both £1.3m). Such achievements are extremely sporadic in box office reporting, bucking the typical trend of films moving down the chart with each passing weekend.

Obsession  is up to an excellent £13.3m in the UK and Ireland, overtaking last year’s Nosferatu  (£13.1m), 2009’s The Final Destination (£12.8m – the top title in that franchise) and 2018’s A Quiet Place  (£12.2m).

Paramount’s Scary Movie moved to third spot with a £1.4m second weekend, a drop of 66%. It is up to £7.2m total, overtaking the £5.9m of 2006’s Scary Movie 4 and behind only the £10.5m of 2000’s Scary Movie and £9.1m of 2004’s Scary Movie 3 in the six-film horror parody franchise.

A24’s Backrooms has crossed the £10m mark on its third weekend, in a great result for the horror title. It added £968,217 on its latest session – a 57% drop that brought it to £10.7m to date, ahead of A24’s other major 2026 success The Drama (£10.2m), which was released by Entertainment Film Distributors in UK-Ireland.

Travis Knight’s Masters Of The Universe fell 59% on its second weekend, with £865,119. The Amazon MGM Studios fantasy adventure is up to £4.3m, distributed by Sony in the territory.

Takings for the top five titles fell below a cumulative £10m for the first time since mid-April. The £8.7m figure was down 30% on last weekend, with sizzling weather across much of UK-Ireland. Box office figures have generally been good in the past few months, so cinemas will look to Disney’s Toy Story 5 to get numbers going in the right direction from next weekend.

Digital Circus puts on a show

Michael Jackson biopic Michael posted a decent hold in the context of the radiant weekend, falling 46% on its eighth session with £730,980. Antoine Fuqua’s film is now up to £51.8m; it will need to continue its long tail to overtake the £55.4m of 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody and become the highest-grossing music biopic ever in the territory.

Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu leads Disney’s slate, with £500,162 on its fourth weekend in cinemas. This 64% drop brought the film to just shy of £15m, leaving it unlikely to catch the £19.4m of 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story among recent titles from the sci-fi franchise.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 dropped 57% on its seventh weekend in cinemas, with £235,964 contributing to a £33.9m total for Disney. It should pass the £34m of 2018’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald this week.

Ovine comedy The Sheep Detectives put on £229,962 on its sixth session for Amazon MGM Studios, distributed by Sony. Having dropped 59% on its previous session, the film is up to a hearty £9.6m and should cross the £10m mark before the end of its run.

The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act, another YouTube-originated horror title, added £205,561 on its second weekend for Piece Of Magic, for a forceful £2.9m total. It will finish screenings on Thursday, June 18.

Daniel Roher’s Tuner starring Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman added £165,000 on its third weekend, a 62% drop for Black Bear that brought it to £1.5m total.

Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie added £56,477 on its 11^th weekend in cinemas, a 61% drop that brought it to £38.4m.

UK-Canadian comedy satire Savage House added £31,000 on its second weekend for Paramount, a 75% drop that brings it to £274,000 total.

Anime title Detective Conan: Fallen Angel Of The Highway took £22,559 from 75 sites at a £301 average for Trinity Film, and has £25,799 including previews.

Park Circus’s re-release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights brought in £21,712, and has £23,872 including previews. The film made £4.5m on its original 1998 release.

Picturehouse Entertainment’s The Christophers added a further £20,639 on its fifth session for a £1.2m total, and is behind only The Wife (£1.7m) among releases for the distributor.

The Magic Faraway Tree has crossed the £15m mark for Entertainment Film Distributors after 12 sessions. The Enid Blyton adaptation added £19,029 on its latest session for a £15m total.

Bollywood romantic comedy Hal Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hal added £17,246 on its second weekend for Bakrania Media, a 68% drop that brought it to £98,336 total.

Paramount thriller Passenger added £14,000 on its fourth weekend, and is closing out with £906,000 total.

Vertigo Releasing’s re-release of Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom brought in £5,199 from nine sites at a £578 average, and has £11,844 including previews.

BFI Distribution’s re-release of James Bidgood’s erotic poem feature Pink Narcissus took £2,532 at the weekend, and has £5,366 including previews.

Indian family comedy Badhu Alright Che started with £2,448 for Bakrania Media, from nine sites at a £306 average. The distributor also has thriller Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata in 10 locations, taking £2,135 at a £237 average.

Sean Robert Dunn’s BFI- and BBC Film-backed UK indie The Fall Of Sir Douglas Weatherford recorded a £14,323 full opening for Mubi, from 51 sites at a £281 average including previews.